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Updated: June 13, 2025
Gatien flew off at a gallop to obey his sovereign; Madame Piedefer went to do some shopping in Sancerre; and Dinah went on to Cosne alone with the two friends. Lousteau took his seat by the lady, Bianchon riding backwards. The two friends talked affectionately and with deep compassion for the fate of this choice nature so ill understood and in the midst of such vulgar surroundings.
"At the decease of Sir Bertrand," says the chronicler, "a great cry arose throughout the host of the French. The English refused to give up the castle. The marshal, Louis de Sancerre, had the hostages brought to the ditches, for to have their heads struck off.
Wine forms the chief industry and the most important trade of the country, which yields several vintages of high-class wine full of aroma, and so nearly resembling the wines of Burgundy, that the vulgar palate is deceived. So Sancerre finds in the wineshops of Paris the quick market indispensable for liquor that will not keep for more than seven or eight years.
So the little man always evaded his wife, while she always hit out, as it were, ten feet above his head. Dinah's fits of fury when she saw herself condemned never to escape from La Baudraye and Sancerre are more easily imagined than described she who had dreamed of handling a fortune and managing the dwarf whom she, the giant, had at first humored in order to command.
"That will do, Bixiou, enough; it is at an end. Be off!" "Be off? I have a friend's privileges, and I shall take every advantage of them. What has come over you?" "What has 'come over' me is my lady from Sancerre. She is a mother, and we are going to live together happily to the end of our days. You would have heard it to-morrow, so you may as well be told it now."
"Address and dissimulation," replied Monsieur de Cleves, "cannot go further than she carried them; observe, that when Sancerre thought her love to him was abated, it really was, and she began to love Etouteville; she told the last that he removed her sorrow for her husband's death, and that he was the cause of her quitting her retirement; Sancerre believed the cause was nothing but a resolution she had taken not to seem any longer to be in such deep affliction; she made a merit to Etouteville of concealing her correspondence with him, and of seeming forced to marry him by her father's command, as if it was an effect of the care she had of her reputation; whereas it was only an artifice to forsake Sancerre, without his having reason to resent it: I must return," continued Monsieur de Cleves, "to see this unhappy man, and I believe you would do well to go to Paris too; it is time for you to appear in the world again, and receive the numerous visits which you can't well dispense with."
"What did you do at Sancerre?" asked Bixiou the first time he met Lousteau. "I did good service to three worthy provincials a Receiver-General of Taxes, a little cousin of his, and a Public Prosecutor, who for ten years had been dancing round and round one of the hundred 'Tenth Muses' who adorn the Departments," said he.
This liberality, which Madame Hochon was quite unable to practise on her own account because of her husband's stinginess, was naturally attributed to her brother, then living at Sancerre. When Doctor Rouget, who certainly was not lucky in sons, observed Max's beauty, he paid the board of the "young rogue," as he called him, at the seminary, up to the year 1805.
And, after all, my Arthur does things in style. I will be faithful to him and cut Malaga's acquaintance. "Let me peep at her through the door your Sancerre Muse," she went on. "Is there no finer bird than that to be found in the desert?" she exclaimed. "You are cheated! She is dignified, lean, lachrymose; she only needs Lady Dudley's turban!"
"Just as I was priding myself on having won our freedom," said she "at the cost of my fortune by selling what is most precious to a mother's heart selling my children! for he is to have them from the age of six and I cannot see them without going to Sancerre! and that is torture! Ah, dear God! What have I done ?"
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